including
Woolwich & Districts
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At Plumstead
These
roads almost insist
That you climb from near-river
Homes - doors on the street,
By thoroughfares that twist
Hillward, without ever
Looking back at low-estate.
Victorian times you see repeat -
Position and a view -
Iron railings and a gate,
High hat and frock coat
Or a bustle stepping through.
A century has replaced
Customs, those lives remote;
Despite which, one infers
The servant and the served -
The menial and the graced -
Gunners and officers.
Roger Taylor
Roger
Taylor, a member of the Camden Poetry Group, wrote this poem
in 1992. It was published in the Silver Snake Camden Poetry
Group Anthology in 1994.
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